How Much is Your Site Worth?
We wondered about this question and thought can some tool really place a monetary value on our sites? How reliable are their algorithms? Most of the tool sites would note that a value is gathered based on some of these factors: BackLinks, Traffic (based on Alexa), age of the domain, Technorati, PageRank, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web.
This is the first time we are testing our site for such and we are very curious to know if we could perhaps sell our website and retire to Hawaii early! LOL.
We know better of course. We’re 3 months shy to our anniversary and we know how the age of a domain hugely affects value (the older the site is, the higher the value) regardless of PageRank and backlinks. Just for kicks we searched for websites available that shows us how much our site is worth.
According to Dane Carlson, the creator who first started it all by asking “How much is your blog worth?” Blogs That Follow site has a laughable $0.00. This is based on Technorati data “which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc. deal,” says the site. That means all our efforts since we started 9 months ago are pretty much worthless if we are to believe what it revealed. 
My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?
Interestingly, we got a better result from dnScoop that says we’re at least valued at $3,914.00 backed with these data:
Lets101 at first look, surprised us with their result. We thought it was just valued at $37.69 but it was actually $3,769. We weren’t really bothered with a ZERO value but somehow we are with $10 or $30!
SmartPagerank is TOO smart for us! They gave us a dismal: $352 value for our site! Their pageRank checker wasn’t working. Did it think we had PR 0 so it gave us a low value? We’ll try again later, maybe it will go up to $360 once they know we have a PR of 3!!
Next! Cubestat gave us the best value of all, $16,232.28!! Then again, they might be really “generous” to all sites so it will be the one that bloggers will flaunt and more people would use it!!
Okay, your turn! We know you’re dying to know too! Good luck with your results, maybe you’d fare better than us and you could move to Hawaii!! 
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October 20th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Neither of those tools mean much of anything. There isn’t a tool like that on the market that can give you an estimate that’s anywhere close to the sites “actual worth” on a marketplace like Sitepoint.
And I have to disagree with your statement about blogs being worth more due to age and regardless of pagerank and links having. While age is certainly a factor, I’ve purchased sites that were 10+ years old for less than $20 with a site included. Links, revenue, and organic traffic sell websites… not age.
Check out my blog if you’d like to see more info. It’s all about site flipping, and it’ll quickly give you an indication of how worthless these tools are.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Why is it that one website has different value?
November 6th, 2008 at 12:33 am
I’ve never understood the concept of buying a blog. Isn’t what makes a particular blog what it is the relationship of the writer to his or her readers? When the blog is sold what relationship does the new owner have to the readers?
But hey the tools are fun and we can dream can’t we.
November 16th, 2008 at 6:10 am
$72,000 for me! I WISH
December 1st, 2008 at 12:48 am
You should also consider http://www.websitefact.com ; they provide a nice summary of the website performance. I find their WF rank being more accurate than Alexa.
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 am
You should also try http://www.websitefact.com ; I found it very useful as it contains a lot of information regarding the performance of your site. Just my two cents …
December 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
It’s funny how sites like this keep popping up and put the strangest dollar values on sites. I recently found another one: http://www.yourwebsitevalue.com/ which also makes no sense to me…
December 9th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Wow.. I’m below 10
Need to work on that stuff I guess..
January 4th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
I got around 1,700 on the technorati money scale, and dnscoop did not work, perhaps as it is a subdomain.
I’m very suprised yours is still listed as 0 dollars still to this day. Obviously it is worth something.
Of course sites like this can not know adsense revenues, true traffic counts, and value of content etc.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:56 am
well, according to dnscoop I can retire to Hawaii, I am prepared to sell the domain for 50% of its stated value on dnscoop
dnScoop:
The estimated value of (I prefer not to mention the domain name) is: $2,191,445
lets101:
Your Page is Worth $1043
cubestats:
Website Worth: $1,563.66
smart pagerank:
The estimated value of (I prefer not to mention the domain name) is: $17,788
if I average them out:
552,962$
who wants to buy my domain for the dnscoop value?
January 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
In my opinion having the keyword in the URL of your domain and the age of the domain, along with how many visitors a month you get would determine the value of a site.
February 13th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Those valuation tools are all neat, and some of them do give some useful insight on what your website could be worth. I would tend to believe dnScoop has the best algorithm within reason.
But from someone who has sold sites online, the true value of a site is based on revenue. The base factor for selling your site is 2.5 – 3.0. This means your site is worth 2.5 to 3 times your last year’s net. So if you netted $1000/mo, then you can easily get up to $36,000 for your site.
Keep in mind, if you sell through a broker, they usually charge 10% commission. But I have found out that they can normally get a much higher price than you can if you find the right broker.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
These estimates are completely random guesses. A site’s worth has much more to do than links, age, and indexed pages and traffic. It has much more to do with branding, how engaging your website is, the ability for your site to capture “targeted traffic”, and your business model. Thus, any estimate you get from these web calculators are complete nonsense.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Sound Samples,
These estimates are not random guesses. The only way to know for sure what a site is worth is enlist a good broker. A biz broker knows all the current variables and market saturation to list it where it should be. As ‘buy pepper spray’ said, about all those numbers, this is exactly how an eCommerce site is figured. I have one under contract right now using a 2.5 factor. It was on the market for 2 days.
Again, contact a good broker. I happen to have a good relationship with a broker, so anytime I have a site for sale, I just give him a buzz, and he tells me what the site would list for.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
http://www.peekstats.com has a great tool for statistics
December 25th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Well my site worth ony $400..That’s not really good..I will improve it’s value..! Well thanks.!